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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 08:25 AM

    Republicans are always soft on crime... when it's theirs

    I'm not at all surprised that the Bush administration considers itself above the law. I'm more disturbed that the Democrats didn't go after the criminals when they took over Congress in 2006. Obama's administration may be "post-partisan" but they still have to clean up the mess left by Bush, and that means going after law-breakers. It's a matter of values.

    Ignorance of the law is no excuse, and willful disdain of the law even less so.

    —Baron Dave Romm Read Baron Dave Romm's other letters

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